JOHOR BAHRU FOOD

Just a record post.

We went to JB recently, tried this Portuguese chicken at City Square Mall.
Not bad.

CHICKEN OUT

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted anything here. I am so sorry about it.

A few months ago, I discovered Jollibee at Lucky Plaza. Few years ago, they were just a little outlet there, but now they occupy a big space on Level 6. 

I would say it is rather a refreshing taste from other fried chicken, not that the rest are not nice, but this one is just different with the various choices of side dishes.

The Novena outlet is not as nice, the chicken is pretty 'anemic' looking and salty. Still the outlet at Lucky Plaza rocks. 

CHICKEN RENDANG - HILL STREET COFFEESHOP

Chicken Rendang from Hill Street Coffeeshop. Yes, it is good.

Misc Food

Long overdue food stuff..Let's start with

1. Chinatown Special Yang Chow Fried Rice
I got to know this stall from a friend and finally get to try it.  It is very good.  I do not usually eat fried rice because they are hard and oily, but this is not.  Fragrant and grainy but not hard.  My favorite fried rice.  Oh did I mention that their chilli is also Power!!  Add additional $1 for the luncheon meat.

 2. Cajun Chicken Thigh from Botak Jones
Chicken is nice but the sides dishes are a little disappointing.

3. Kampong Chicken Rice from Chicken House
Ok loh..Not too fatty but not really fantastic either.

4. Papamia's Nyonya Fried Chicken Nasi Lemak
Chicken is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. Rice is grainy but not hard. Overall a nice nasi lemak. Yummy.

A Little Japanese - Tori Karaage

My first attempt at this.  Just for fun.

A rather quick snap as I was having low sugar, and couldn't wait to take my food.

CHICKEN MACARONI

My first attempt at making chicken macaroni.  Been wanting to do it but has been procrastinating.  Recently I got to know that my little nephew is having macaroni in his school, and he does not like it, so I decided to convince him through my cooking that macaroni is nice.  He complained that the macaroni he had in school is cold and hard, so I made sure mine is warm and soft for him.  He likes it. ♥

My little notes to remind myself what I did:

2 piece chicken thigh with bones, without skin - marinate this in starch and soya sauce.
Then cook it with a bit of water, soya sauce, ginger slices. Once cooked, take out to shred the chicken, leave the bones and gravy in the pot for cooking the macaroni soup base.

Boil the macaroni, then transfer them out to the soup base once almost half cooked. Add in peas, corn and carrot, also slices of ginger.

Served with finely chopped romaine lettuce.

CHICKEN CUTLET WITH FRIES

Today, we made chicken cutlet again, but this time with fries.  Used russet potatoes for the fries and had a hard time cutting them, coz the knife not sharp lah. hahaha..

CNY 2012 DAY 2

Day 2 of CNY this year is Chicken Curry.  Preparation time is about 2 hours.  We went around the neighbourhood looking for fresh coconut milk but we are not able to find any coz all the shops are closed.  The indian shop that sells them had also ran out of stock.  In the end, we used the pasturised version from NTUC.

COLBAR 2011

Oh I realised I missed out this entry.  Went to Colbar again for lunch, and for a simple photo shoot with KK.  I ordered the Roasted Chicken with Peas but they gave me the mushroom instead. It was delicious too, such a hearty n heavy lunch.  I couldn't walk after that.

BREAKFAST@HOME - CRISPY CHICKEN CUTLET

We have been lazy, not cooking much lately.  Here is our latest, KK tried a new powder mix.  It is good.

CHICKEN BRYANI

The first time I tried Chicken  Bryani Malay Style.  This one from the malay stall at the coffeeshop near my place. It is good.

HARUMA CHICKEN

Tried out Haruma Kentucky Powder this afternoon. Strangely, the thing do not smell as fragrant as I remembered it to be.

Overall still taste ok.

BREAKFAST@HOME - CHICKEN CONGEE

We first attempt at Chicken Congee.  We used chicken fillet for it.

Turns out nice.

CHICKEN EXPERIMENT

On a boring weekend, you can always find something interesting to do, like experimenting in the kitchen.
We bought two packets of chicken drumlets.  Both tried different recipe. 

I won't bother to state the recipe, since there is nothing much to rave about.  It is not a disaster, but it is not a super duper chicken drumlets too.

Guess which is mine?

MISC FOOD

My bad! This post is so way outstanding.  Few shots of food collected here and there, snapped on my Nokia.  Photos are edited online via http://pixlr.com/editor/

A huge Batura from Saravana Bhavan Indian vegetarian restaurant.  The chick peas are spicy and very nice.

Bubbly Teh Tarik

Chicken rice from Chinatown Complex.  Cheapest I ever had at $2.50.

BREAKFAST @HOME - CHICKEN FILLET BURGER

Finally we make our first chicken fillet burger from fresh chicken instead of using those ready-made patty.  It is nice, much nicer!

We used boneless chicken leg which we get from the supermarket, marinate it overnight and just grilled it the next morning.  Preparation: 30mins.

CHICKEN CHOP

We have guests today, we invited them over for Chicken Chop.  It is quite a challenge cooking for 6 pax share.

The portion for guests.  They prefer the bigger plain bun.

My own version, with small bun.

We served our guests hot choco.  We finally found a brand of hot chocolate that we like - Bonchoco.

Yummy hot chocolate with little marshallows..


So exhausted now, with all the cooking and washing up.  But it has been fun. Thank goodness the food and drinks turns out edible. hahahaha..

BREAKFAST @HOME - CHICKEN WRAP

It is cooking day today, we will be cooking nonstop from morning till night.

First off, for breakfast is the chicken wrap. This is our first attempt at it.  Bought some wraps from Jason Supermarket and attempted to make this.  Ingredients used: The Master Baker's tortilla wraps, romaine lettuce, chicken breast fillet, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, egg, seaweed and sauce.


Our first time making so didn't know not to put so much, so full until can hardly wrap it up.

Got KK to wrap it for me. Yummy it is nice, I love it. Simple meal.

MUFIZ CHICKEN BRYANI

After work, I struggled all the way (in extreme hunger) to Mufiz.  Mufiz is located at Bukit Batok MRT, just next to the McDonalds. It is open 24hours.

Today, we finally try their famous Chicken Bryani.  A few times there, I always see a lot of customers eating bryani, and was wondering how good it is. The verdict - It is Very very very Good! I love it so so much, had not have such good bryani for a long time. Why do I like it?   The long grain basmati rice is fragrant, cooked in herbs, it is grainy yet fluffy and soft.  The fried chicken is crispy on the outside, soft and juicy on the inside.  The achar is also refreshing, not too sour.  Only complaint I can think of is the missing Papadum. hahaha..

At $4.50, you can choose to have curry chicken bryani or fried chicken version.  I think I definitely prefer the fried chicken. Yummy!


A snapshot of it, I was too hungry to take any decent shot of it.

SATAY 138

Finally I get to try my Redhill Satay at Redhill Food Centre, have been eyeing this stall for some time now.  The stall name "138", is a corner stall.  

They sell BBQ chicken wings too but I did not try that.  Decided to just go for the satay only.  

Satay variety: Chicken, Pork, Mutton. Each stick 40 cents.

Rice (ketupat) 50 cents each

Of all, we like the Pork most, next comes the chicken. Do not quite fancy the mutton, got strong mutton smell.

Only complaint is that the pieces are small, how I wish it's a bigger stick.  But at 40 cents a stick, guess I should not have ask for more.

It is not super duper satay, but for the price, it is pretty decent.  Will definitely order more in future! Yummy!